The search for the best Pasteis de Nata in Portugal…. My first experience of the egg tart was in the UK as a kid, in those old fashioned bakeries that all towns had before the supermarkets came along. It wasn’t my choice of cake (is it for any kid?!) but I remember my mum eating …
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The Jerusalem Artichoke is in my top 5 of vegetables…which is a pretty hard list for me to pick as I can’t think of a vegetable that I dislike (maybe okra….) At the mention of artichoke, you maybe thinking of a globe artichoke – the large green orb of firm petals that looks mysterious to …
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Here are my favourite cookbooks…we often get asked what are our favourite or most used cookbooks. My list rarely changes even though we buy quite a number of books every year. 4 out of 6 of my choices are from Australian chef’s which may seem bizarre but I find the Australian food scene to be …
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After the mammoth task of creating our kitchen garden, the first thing we planted was rhubarb and the same plant has treated us for 5 seasons with no signs of decline. Rhubarb is so easy to grow, I don’t do anything at all to it and it produces beautiful fat, red stems. The only small …
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Our bookshelf at Chalet Cannelle is mostly cookbooks and buying new additions is quite a regular event. Living in the mountains, we don’t have an amazing bookstore on our doorstep so a few times a year when we go off to a city for a few days, be it Turin, Lyon or London, we will …
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